Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Old Man
Lightly-caramelized bread, bordering on toast; fruits (dried/candied) and peat kinda in the background. Earthy-grassy-floral bitterness more than adequate to balance. Dries out pretty well by the finish, with a touch of something like a mineral character flickering by.
Kinda bready-chewy, with decent carbonation. A touch of syrupy stickiness, but otherwise pretty clean and bordering on refreshing. Nary a trace of the 7.7% ABV.
A moderately burly beer, nearly perfect for a dank mid-spring evening wherein I have been reduced to watching hockey during baseball season. Very tasty--complex, balanced, integrated--and very drinkable. I picked this up kinda late this year, but it has a soft spot in my beer-geeky heart, as one of the first very good beers I had from Southern Tier.
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| Southern Tier Old Man |
Lightly-caramelized bread, bordering on toast; fruits (dried/candied) and peat kinda in the background. Earthy-grassy-floral bitterness more than adequate to balance. Dries out pretty well by the finish, with a touch of something like a mineral character flickering by.
Kinda bready-chewy, with decent carbonation. A touch of syrupy stickiness, but otherwise pretty clean and bordering on refreshing. Nary a trace of the 7.7% ABV.
A moderately burly beer, nearly perfect for a dank mid-spring evening wherein I have been reduced to watching hockey during baseball season. Very tasty--complex, balanced, integrated--and very drinkable. I picked this up kinda late this year, but it has a soft spot in my beer-geeky heart, as one of the first very good beers I had from Southern Tier.
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